Allan Sherman
Allan Sherman
Allan Shermanwas an American comedy writer and television producer who became famous as a song parodist in the early 1960s. His first album, My Son, the Folk Singer, became the fastest-selling record album up to that time. His biggest hit single was "Hello Muddah, Hello Fadduh," a comic novelty in which a boy describes his summer camp experiences to the tune of Ponchielli's Dance of the Hours. He is not to be confused with the songwriter Al Sherman who, coincidentally,...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionComedian
Date of Birth30 November 1924
CityChicago, IL
CountryUnited States of America
I have always lived beyond my means. I am still trying to live beyond my means, but it is getting harder all the time. I am very rich.
You want to fall in love with a shoe, go ahead. A shoe can't love you back, but, on the other hand, a shoe can't hurt you too deeply either. And there are so many nice-looking shoes.
Success is like winning the sweepstakes or getting killed in an automobile crash. It always happens to somebody else.
The head coach don't want no sissies, so he reads to us from something called Ulysses.
A committee is a group of individuals who all put in a perfectly good color, and it comes out gray.
In Hollywood if you are not working, you are a leper. True, you are probably living in the most expensive leper colony in the world.
Teacher, teacher, I declare, I see your purple underwear.
Anyone who calls it "sexual intercourse" can't possibly be interested in actually doing it. You might as well announce you're ready for lunch by proclaiming, "I'd like to do some masticating and enzyme secreting."
There's Beatles books and T-shirts and rings, and one thing and another. To buy my daughter all these things, I had to sell her brother.
A "Normal" person is the sort of person that might be designed by a committee. You know, "Each person puts in a pretty color and it comes out gray."
I had moved out of the Edison Hotel because I couldn't pay the bill and was living at the Lincoln Hotel, where I couldn't pay the bill either, but it was cheaper.
Do not make a stingy sandwich; pile the cold cuts high; so you should see salami coming through the rye.
You may be wondering why I went from over there to over here. Well, that was choreography.
Grandma cheated whenever she could. She cheated because it was a much more scientific and surer way of winning than trusting to luck.